Trump, doctors warn: “We need a visit for mental evaluation”

An urgent visit is needed for Donald Trump. From the columns of the prestigious British Medical Journal comes the request for checks for the president of the United States, complicit in recent declarations and attitudes. Using “public statements and behaviors” as evidence of a head of state’s cognitive decline “is not correct and such statements are far from the standards required for a diagnosis” but in the case of Donald Trump “an urgent clinical evaluation is needed, now more than ever”say British neurologist David Nicholl of the Sandwell Health Campus and primary care expert Trish Greenhalgh of the University of Oxford in an article published in the BMJ. The authors distinguish between “making a clinical diagnosis and expressing concerns” that are broader and based on clinical evidence. They note that, in 2016, senior psychiatrists “raised doubts about Donald Trump’s mental fitness to hold office,” while explicitly refraining from a diagnosis and calling for an impartial medical evaluation.